Thursday, September 30, 2010Do Not Underestimate Nigerian Resilience and Resolveby Dr. Robin Renee Sanders, Africa.com Featured Blogger[October 1, 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. To celebrate this historic date, Africa.com welcomes our newest "featured blogger," Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders, the former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria.]
Nigeria's next, critically important elections appear to be slated for April 2011. In the months leading up to those elections, there are two key things to keep in mind. I call them the two R’s: Nigeria’s Resilience and Nigeria’s Resolve. Do not underestimate either.
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Nigeria's next, critically important elections appear to be slated for April 2011. In the months leading up to those elections, there are two key things to keep in mind. I call them the two R’s: Nigeria’s Resilience and Nigeria’s Resolve. Do not underestimate either.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010Carpaccio: A Thin Slice of South Africaby R. Steven Lewis, What does the only Black member of the 2006-07 Class of Loeb Fellows, whose fellowship year was dominated, if not defined, by the topic of race and architecture, do when he goes to South Africa? He goes in search of Black African architects, of course. While America continues to revisit the lingering social, economic and political conditions of our post-Katrina society that are so clearly connected to issues of race and class, our Loeb class traveled from the Harvard Graduate School of Design to South Africa for two weeks this past May to learn as much as we could from a country in transition after generations of apartheid.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010Flames on both sides of the Atlantic by Mkhululi Z Mabija, Sathima Bea Benjamin is a jazz vocalist from Cape Town, South Africa who has made the shores of America her home and she pours the spirit of South Africa in every note she sings. With the help of Duke Ellington, Benjamin arrived in New York City with her pianist husband, Abdullah Ibrahim, in the 1960s and never looked back. Escaping the brutality of apartheid, Ibrahim and Benjamin hoped that through music, they could survive being in exile through four-part harmony. And they did.
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Monday, September 27, 2010Economic Downturn as an Opportunity: Investing in Small and Medium Sized Businesses Nowby Alison Craiglow Hockenberry, Ashoka Changemakers[This Changemakers article is Part One of a three-part series focused on SME investment opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa, also featured on Social Edge and Changemakers.]
The global economic downturn may seem an unlikely opportunity for creating jobs and wealth, but optimists at the forefront of developing world finance and business argue that now is precisely the moment for big things.
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The global economic downturn may seem an unlikely opportunity for creating jobs and wealth, but optimists at the forefront of developing world finance and business argue that now is precisely the moment for big things.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010Nigeria at 50: Education is the Imperative for Nigeria’s Futureby Teresa Clarke, CEO and Founder of Africa.comNigeria is a major driver of the economic boom sweeping through Africa. At a conference at the New York Stock Exchange last week, Emmanuel Ikazaboh, the acting CEO of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, predicted that 1000 companies will be actively traded within the next five years. The investment bank, Goldman Sachs, has placed Nigeria in the "Next Eleven," a list of countries whose economies will lead the world in GDP growth by 2050.
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